Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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The dividend 'gravy train'; Child Trust Funds come of age; and the 'high-wire act' of the DIY investor - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Boost your income by jumping on the £89bn dividend gravy train With banks and building societies offering such low savings rates for a number of years now, says Mail on Sunday's Jeff Prestridge, savers have turned to the stockmarket in their hunt for income - and FTSE 100 companies have subsequently rewarded them. Research conducted by AJ Bell for the newspaper indicates the Footsie is on course to post a record year for dividends, with the index of the UK's 100 largest stocks set to deliver £88.6bn to investors. Some £92.7bn is then forecast to hit investors' pockets in 2019 - compare...

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